biography
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Keene, Donald (Lawrence)
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| lived:
| (1922– )
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| biography:
| Literary critic, translator, and educator, born in New York City, New York, USA. A Columbia University PhD, he joined its faculty (1954) and became the leading Western expert on Japanese literature. His critical and historical studies and translations introduced Westerners to Japanese writing and earned him the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun (1976). |
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